Editing Loup City, Nebraska (section)

==History==
The first settlement at Loup City was made in the mid 1860s.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.loupcity.org/our_community.htm | title=Our Community | publisher=Loup City, NE city website | accessdate=24 August 2014}}</ref> Loup City was platted in 1864, and designated county seat.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.casde.unl.edu/history/counties/sherman/loupcity/ | title=Loup City, Sherman County | publisher=University of Nebraska | work=Center for Advanced Land Management Information Technologies | accessdate=23 August 2014}}</ref> Loup City was named after the [[Loup River]].<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Dlas_EPVGFEC | title=Nebraska Place-Names | publisher=University of Nebraska Press | author=Fitzpatrick, Lillian L. | year=1960 |isbn=0-8032-5060-6 | pages=135}} A [http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=englishunsllc 1925 edition] is available for download at [http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/ University of Nebraska—Lincoln Digital Commons.]</ref>

During the Great Depression, Loup City was the site of a clash between leftist activists, influenced by [[Ella Reeve Bloor|Mother Bloor]], who clashed with area residents in June 1934 following efforts by Communists to organize the workers of a poultry processing plant.

The completion of Sherman Reservoir in 1963 added tourism to the area's economic base.